Meet the Minnesota Governor’s Wife, Kids

Gus Walz is the governor’s youngest child with wife Gwen.

And just like with Hope, the parents have offered peeks into his day-to-day, including photos of him passing his driver’s license test, going to school and celebrating holidays with his family.

Gus has also supported his dad throughout his political career. In fact, Walz promised to get Gus a puppy if he was elected governor of Minnesota—fulfilling that promise in 2019 with a dog named Scout (The family also has a pet cat named Afton.)

And at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Gus was brought to tears as he cheered on his father.

“I don’t know as a father I could’ve ever imagined that,” Walz told CNN. “I’m grateful for so many reasons to be on this ticket, but that moment—to understand what was really important, to have my son feel a sense of pride in me that I was trying to do the right thing. You try and protect your kids. It brings notoriety and things, but it was just such a visceral emotional moment that I’m grateful I got to experience it, and I’m so proud of him.”

He and his wife have also spoken about Gus being neurodivergent.

“When he was becoming a teenager, we learned that Gus has a non-verbal learning disorder in addition to an anxiety disorder and ADHD,” they told People in August 2024, “conditions that millions of Americans also have.”

They later added, “It took time, but what became so immediately clear to us was that Gus’ condition is not a setback—it’s his secret power.”